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Champs-Elysées killer suspected accomplice arrested

A man linked to Champs-Elysées cop-killer Karim Cheurfi has been arrested as part of the inquiry into how the 39-year-old repeat offender had obtained the Kalashnikov assault rifle he used. And an alleged accomplice of the November 2015 Paris attackers was charged last month, it emerged on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old, suspected of being an accomplice to Cheurfi, was arrested in the Seine-et-Marne region east of Paris on Monday, judicial sources said on Tuesday.

Responsibility for the attack, in which police officer Xavier Jugelé was killed just before last month's French presidential election first round, was claimed by the Islamic State armed group (IS).

Although a declaration of allegiance to IS was found near Cheurfi's body, the organisation's claim has puzzled investigators since the IS statement named a certain "Abou Youssef the Belgian", a description that does not fit the actual assailant.

A pump-action shotgun, two larges knives and munitions were found in his car.

Algerian charged over Thalys, Paris attacks

An Algerian national was charged with complicity with terrorist murder and implication in a terror plot on 21 April, sources revealed on Tuesday.